'The Five Year Photo' project

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

Five friends from Santa Barbara, California have been going on vacation every five years since 1982, and photographing themselves in the same location and in the same pose. Their photo project starts with them at the age of just 19 years old.


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1982: Like all good friendships, there’s a photo that takes five high school buddies – John Wardlaw, Mark Rumer, Dallas Burney, John Molony, and John Dickson – back to a different time. For these five, it was just a year after their graduation from high school. They were 19 and vacationing at Copco Lake in northern California. The photo, taken with a self-timer, became was the starting point. (Courtesy of John Wardlaw)

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1987: Every five years, they agreed, they would return to the same place. They’d sit on the same bench with the same mountains in the background. And, they’d sit in the same order, Wardlaw on the far left, Dickson on the far right, and Rumer, Burney, and Molony in the middle. Molony always holds a jar in his right hand. Rumer has a hat of some sort on his right knee. They all wear serious expressions. (Courtesy of John Wardlaw)

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1992: And, every five years, there are subtle changes. Their hair and clothes reflect a change in fashion trends and, perhaps, a change in age. They’re all in T-shirts now. “It was cold and cloudy. From that point on, we didn’t have tans like we did early on,” Dickson told the Santa Barbara News-Press. “And,” Wardlaw added, “we were flabby.” (Courtesy of John Wardlaw)

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1997: Since that first photo together, the men have gone their own ways. Dickson is a restaurant columnist. Wardlaw is into photography and film. Burney is a teacher. Molony works for UPS and lives in New Orleans. Rumer is retired and lives in Oregon. The Daily Mail reports that none of them have children. (Courtesy of John Wardlaw)

More at link:


http://news.yahoo.com/photos/the-five-year-photo-project-slideshow/five-year-photo-photo-1343412739.html

[JohnnyRingo]

1. Amazing enough that all five are still with us.

Even more amazing that they all still show up. What a great tradition!
Thanx for posting

I remembered seeing something similar that a family once did. I had to search my saved pics for it:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. Now that's really cool. Thanks for posting that. I just remember

wanted to post something positive for a change.

[graywarrior]

4. That's quite amazing!

[Speck Tater]

2. In a few weeks...

at a family reunion that's coming up the second week of August, my sisters and cousins will all be together in the same place for the first time since 1952. We have a picture of all of us lined up as a group, and at the reunion we've already planned to line up in the same way and in the same order and take a picture of the identical group of people exactly 60 years later. We ranged from 4 to 9 at the time of the original photo, and now we range from 64 to 69.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. That's pretty awesome. Although my family's far away

We get together pretty often. I want to do something positive like that next.